Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-10-27
C~HAMBERLAlN'S OPINION.
IDEAS OF THE CHIEF OF BRITISH
FISHERIES COMMISSION.

He Anticipates Opposition from Irish
Americans to the Work of h Conn
: m~issIon-The Slender Tie Binding
Canada TO the Mother Country.
LONDON, Oct. 28.-An immense meet
ing was held at Islington, which passed
II resolution expressing satisfaction with
the governments appointment of Mr..
Chamberlain as chief of the British fish
cries commission. Mr.. Chamberlain who
was present, replied to the resolution,
saying that he fully appreciated the ref
srence of the meeting to the honorable
and important mission upon which he
would embark in a few days. He was
aware that his task would Ike a diHicult
one. The question he was to consider
was complicated aud involved enormous
interests. Upon several occasions, within
the present century, it lad gone far to-
ward e~ndangering the araicable relations
between England and the United States.
Unfortunately, he said, tho difficulties in
his way were not inherited in the csse
nor involved in the issue. Mr.. Chambs--
lain then referred to a published telegram
which he presumed that all of his hear
ers had seen, stating that the Irish in
America would do everything in their
power to mar the usefulness of his mis-
sion, and would be able to prevent It's
success. He did not doubt the fact that
the Irish Americans were ready to
use every effort to prevent a settle
ment of the case. Indeed there had never
been q time within the last thirty years
when the Irish in America had not been
willing to use the privileges which had
been conceded to them by their adopted
country in order to sow dissension and
promote i'll feeling between Great Britain
and America. More than once they had
shown their readiness to jeopardiZe the
best interests of their adopted country i'll
order to ayenge real or fancied injuries,
and he was not sufficiently sanguine to
anticipate that on the presect occasion
they would change their policy, but he
was encouraged by the belief that a vast
majority of native Americans Cheers
and every Engllshman and Scotchman in
the United Kingdom, would regard a
fratricidal conflict between the two conn
tries as acrirne of the deepest dye. They
were earnestly desirous OF an amicable
Civ hoIoiuptO oCpUlCLlSib. anu WOuiu ilOb.
allow it to be jeopardized by party rancor
and personal feelings. AS this would be
the last time he would make q public
speech before leaving for America, he
would take occasion to refer to the tele-
gram, stating that the Toronto Globe had
referred to some of his words in Ulster,
constituting them into an insult to all
Canadians. There seemed to have been
a ynIGa nrahanain - 2 hiS rna1 ,t,,,.
What he said was that there was a part
of Canada seeking a commercial union
with the United States, implying free
trade between Canada and the United
States, while at the same time 1t was pro-
posed to continue to impose protective
duties upon imports from the mother
country; thus Canada was to give prefer
ence in every article of manufacture to
the United States over Great Britain.
He had said that If the people of Canada
desired an arrangemenGo of this kind there
was no doubt that they would be able to
secure it. He did not think that n
body in this country would attempt to
prevent 1t by force, but he had remarked
that in that case all the advantages
of the slender tie still binding Canada to
England would disappear, as far as
England was concerned, and it was not
likely that the people Of Great Britain
would continue much longer to sustain
the obligations and responsibilities of re-
~lationship after all reciprocal benefits had
been withdrawn. So he had said that a
commercial unionsof this kind, if II ever
came about would be the nss6 step and
signal of a practical separation. That
was q matter of fact. He could net con-
ceire how any human being, with a grain
of reason, could discover anything In
sulting in the statement. This threw a
vivid light upon the question of Ireland.
Mr.. Gladstone had quoted Canada as an
illustration of how we might maintain
imperial control over matters of imperial
interest, while allowing entire independ-
ence IN all domestic business. The To-
ronto Globe said that Canada had reached
q stage OF development where it's choics
must prevail over all considerations.
That meant that Canada had a right
and he would not dispute it-wheneveY
her interests demanded 1t. to follow her
interests, without reference to the views
OF the mother country, although the sub
ject might be among those expressly
withdrawn from her cognizance by the
constitution. If ever Ireland obtained a
practically independent parliament, sep
aratton would be at the discretion of that
%parliamedt.